Naoyasu Akaza

Naoyasu Akaza (died 1606) was a general of Hideyoshi Hashiba and Yoshitsugu Otani. He fought at Oshi Castle during the Odawara Campaign of 1590 against the Hojo and was enfeoffed in Echizen Province, and became a vassal of the Otani and a general of Hideaki Kobayakawa. During the Battle of Sekigahara he switched sides but Ieyasu Tokugawa gave him no credit and he became Toshinaga Maeda's retainer. He fell off his horse and died of drowning in the Daimon River in Etchu in 1606.